Magnitude of radiation-induced DNA damage in peripheral blood leukocytes and its correlation with aggressiveness of thymic lymphoma in Swiss mice

International Journal of Radiation Biology

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1113-1119

  Jayakumar, S ^a   Bhilwade, Hari N ^a   Dange, Pramod S ^a   Sarma, Haladhar D ^a   Chaubey, Ramesh C ^a   Pandey, Badri N ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Comet assay; DNA damage; Ionizing radiation; Thymic lymphoma

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SIZE; CELL KINETICS; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; LEUKOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIOSENSITIVITY; THYMUS LYMPHOMA; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; LEUKOCYTES; LYMPHOMA; MICE; RADIATION TOLERANCE; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 80455178764     PISSN: 09553002     EISSN: 13623095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09553002.2011.622032     Document Type: Article

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